Since I am a Lutheran, having left the Catholic Church in 2001, I find this story upsetting (See: http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/07/070507pastor.htm). Admittedly, I have been lax on my church attendance of late, but with this type of stuff happening, it makes attending an ECLA parish much less attractive. It would be wonderful if at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly on August 6-11, 2007, the majority would vote to do away with this ban. Personally, I know so many LGBT individuals who long for a church home, yet feel unwelcome. Saying that all are accepted, yet banning members of the supposedly welcomed group from the clergy ends a message that the talk of being welcoming is just that: talk.I have always been of a mindset that I'd rather be right and in the minority as opposed to being wrong and shamefully following the majority. If doing the right thing should drive some bigots from the ECLA, the church is better off without them, in my opinion.
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We forget that the most popular book used by Hitler was NOT Mein Kampf, but Martin Luther's Jewish Question, where Luther accuses the Jews of killing Jesus and deserving death for their complicity. Hey, why read Mein Kampf, if the Church will do your dirty work, especially its "founder?"
You should read Luther's views of homosexuality!! Makes one feel less justified by faith, especially the Lutheran faith.
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